NADPH-diaphorase activity and c-fos expression in medullary neurons after fatiguing stimulation of hindlimb muscles in the rat

Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical

Volumn 101, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 1-12

  Maisky, Vladimir A ^a   Pilyavskii, Alexander I ^a   Kalezic, Ivana ^b   Ljubisavljevic, Milos ^c,d   Kostyukov, Alexander I ^a   Windhorst, Uwe ^c,e   Johansson, Håkan ^c  

^a BOGOMOLETZ INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR WORKING LIFE   (Sweden)

^d UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

c Fos immunoreactivity; Dorsomedial medulla; Muscle pressor reflex; NADPH diaphorase; Nitric oxide; Spinal cord; Ventrolateral medulla

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR FONTANEL; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; HINDLIMB; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LATERAL RETICULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; NERVE CELL; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; SPINAL CORD;

ANIMALS; BAROREFLEX; BLOOD PRESSURE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HEART RATE; HINDLIMB; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NADPH DEHYDROGENASE; NEURONS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS;

EID: 0037206974     PISSN: 15660702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1566-0702(02)00146-7     Document Type: Article

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